From 73966ff69a173713b628f5ff1a40d84ce3a6494d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gabucino
This section contains information about the DivX4 codec of ProjectMayo. Their first available alpha version was the OpenDivX 4.0 @@ -47,9 +47,10 @@ quality of MPEG1/2 movies. Now we use our own.
The new generation of this codec can even decode movies made with the infamous DivX codec! And it's not everything, it's MUCH faster than the -traditional Win32 DivX DLL's (note that libavcodec's decoder is EVEN FASTER :). -See below for configuration. The only disadvantage of this codec is that it's -currently closed-source. :(
+traditional Win32 DivX DLL's (note that libavcodec's decoder is EVEN FASTER, +so the usage of this codec is DISCOURAGED - you need it only for +encoding). See below for configuration. The only disadvantage of this codec is +that it's currently closed-source. :(The codec can be downloaded from the following URL:
@@ -64,9 +65,9 @@ currently closed-source. :(Note: do NOT forget to add /usr/local/lib
to your
/etc/ld.so.conf
and running ldconfig
!
MPlayer autodetects if DivX4 is (properly) installed, just compile -as usual. If it doesn't detect it, you didn't install it exactly as above, -and/or has messed up config (see last question of 5.1 section).
+MPlayer autodetects if DivX4/DivX5 is (properly) installed, just +compile as usual. If it doesn't detect it, you didn't install it exactly as +above, and/or has messed up config (see last question of 5.1 section).
Using it is a bit tricky. As it conflicts with the old OpenDivX (its API is very similar to OpenDivX's), OpenDivX code is disabled, and the OpenDivX @@ -77,11 +78,11 @@ this codec:
-vc odivx | - | using divx4 codec as a new version of OpenDivX. + | using the codec as a new version of OpenDivX. in this case it produces YV12 image in its own buffer, and MPlayer (libvo) does colorspace conversion. (RECOMMENDED!) | |
-vc divx4 | - | using divx4 codec's colorspace conversion. + | using the codec's colorspace conversion. in this mode, you can use YUY2/UYVY too. |
2.2.1.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec
-Beginning with version 0.4.2 , ffmpeg contains an opensource DivX codec, -which is compatible with the traditional DivX. MPlayer supports this codec, -and this makes it possible to watch DivX/DivX4 movies on non-x86 platforms, -and gain much faster DivX/DivX4 decoding speed than the Win32 codecs and -the original DivX4 library has!
+Beginning with version 0.4.2 , +ffmpeg contains an +opensource DivX codec, which is compatible with the traditional DivX. +MPlayer supports this codec, and this makes it possible to watch +DivX/DivX4/DivX5 movies on non-x86 platforms, and gain much faster +DivX/DivX4/DivX5 decoding speed than the Win32 codecs and the original +DivX4 library has!
It also contains lots of nice codecs, such as RealVideo 1.0, MJPEG, h263, h263+, etc.
@@ -151,8 +154,9 @@ or the example.conf says (the -vfm option).ffmpeg12
section from codecs.conf (this codec isn't optimized, and
libmpeg2 is twice as fast), and place vfm=5
in my config file.
Then MPlayer always uses ffdivx/ffodivx to decode
-DivX/DivX4 files, and libmpeg2 for MPEG1/2 . With this and my Matrox G400, I can view even the
-highest resolution DivX/DivX4 movies on my K6/2 500, without framedrop.
+DivX files, and libmpeg2 for MPEG1/2 . With this and my
+Matrox G400, I can view even the highest resolution DivX movies on my
+K6/2 500, without framedrop.
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